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Collapse of the Tacoma Narrow Bridge.

Watch the amazing "Gallopin' Gertie" November 7, 1940 video clip. 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest suspension span in the world opened on July 1st. Only four months later, the great span's short life ended in disaster. "Ga...

Toyota Tacoma 4x4 vz 350z Tags Say 1/8th irwindale track. That is why the tacoma can keep up

Color video of the The Narrows Tacoma Bridge Disaster of 1940. Before asking questions, please visit this wiki article, which has a lot of information on its collapse and why it happened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Bridge#Galloping_Gertie

Newsreel footage from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collpase. She was already known to move up in down in the wind, but in 1940, she began to oscillate due to resonance and would eventually collapse

Some of the footage in this is pre collapse and is hard to find. It gives you an idea why it was named Galloping Gertie since Transverse waves were visible along the span

Protesters tear-gassed several times in Tacoma while opposing shipments of military equipment to Iraq. Confrontations had happened all night long between protesters and riot police. As you can see here, the police decided to gas everyone while they sung Give Peace A Chance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63FEamhpA0&mode=related&search= That video...

Commercial for Toyota's Tacoma pickup involving a meteor impact. Yep, it's the famous "meteor hits truck" video but without the end cut off. The burning peice of wreckage falling out of the sky near the end was the dirt bike that was in the back of the truck. Toyota has a bunch of other commercials their trucks surviving weird things.

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/Comparos/articleId=107904 In this Midsize Truck Comparison Test, Inside Line puts the Nissan Frontier up against the Toyota Tacoma to see who reigns supreme in the segment.

October 2007 TV commercial for the Toyota Tacoma featuring the truck inside a World of Warcraft game.

Toyota Tacoma Truck TV Ad

Tacoma bridge disaster

This is a real Bridge. It was built knowing there was a stronger model available. But it was budget driven. It only lasted for 4 months, and then they built the stronger model anyway.

Toyota commercial using World of Warcraft.

Another angle of the "Give Peace a Chance" police riot.

La causa de la destrucción del Puente de Tacoma

TACOMA WASHINGTON OCTOBER 6, 2007 An explosion heard miles away sent a ball of fire over the historic Atlas Foundry Saturday afternoon, shutting down a major highway and cutting power to the city's industrial area. Four people were taken to a hospital - the driver of a propane truck and three employees of the foundry - after two propane tanks expl...

This documentary took second place at Nationals in National History Day 2007 in the junior group division. The theme was Tragedy and Triumph.

This is a newsreel of the Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge disaster of Nov 7th 1940, with commentary and dramatic music typical of that time.

The first group of protesters were arrested for not relinquishing their backpacks. The second group crossed over the barricades and were taken into custody.

Blake's 3-minute beatbox solo at his hometown show at the Tacoma Dome, 7/27/07.

Tacoma Bridge Collapse (Spanish)

We were lucky to get some time with David during the aftershow. I wanted to see his expression with a few gifts I got him which had to do with the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Lucky, I brought up his tour colour now he knows to look out for white at the concerts!

PMR - "Port Militarization Resistance"

September 29, 2007. Tacoma, WA. At around 11:45 AM, two men got into an argument outside of a duplex with another near the intersection of South 43rd and Cedar. Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum reported that the man opened fire and shot at the two men before running away. One man was shot in the leg. The other man, 20 year old Dowell Thor...

Tacoma Dome, WA; 7.27.2007 [basically a mix of videos from the concert. theres a lot of blake. haha sorry. i love him. =] can't help it.] Sanjaya: "The Way You Make Me Feel" Phil, Sanjaya & Chris S: "I Want It That Way" Jordin & Chris R: "What Hurts the Most" Jordin & Melinda: "This Will Be" Blake: "Time of the Seasons" Blake: "She Will Be Loved" ...

Tacoma Tide FC beat the BYU Cougars 2-0 in Tacoma on May 19th, 2007. Photos by Jenni Conner from www.GOALTacoma.com

From 1993. Please excuse the video quality. The original master was lost, and this is off of a vhs backup copy I made back then. The Port of Tacoma decided to eliminate two 200 foot power transmission towers. One on each side of the Blair waterway for container expansion. The tower was to fall with the pull of a tractor. Instead, the legs twi...

about the claim that "protesters started throwing barricades at officers".